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The Many Things You Can Build With A Raspberry Pi

08-20-2014, 02:40 PM

Phoronix: The Many Things You Can Build With A Raspberry Pi

Ruth Suehle and Tom Callaway are presenting at LinuxCon 2014 Chicago tomorrow about many different Raspberry Pi hacks and other Linux capabilities of these low-cost, low-performance single board computers...

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Proper wearable products will must require an immediate energy generation like body heat, induction or whatever. Very low power systems are too limited and I think nuclear batteries aren't an option.

The problem is that there simply isn't much energy that can be harvested in a compact, portable form factor without relying on specific environmental conditions like "leave me in lying in direct sunlight". That's why designs like the Mosquino say "or from coin cells if you're not feeling adventurous".